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CAPT.FRANK W.BANTA
CAPT.FRANK W.BANTA is a 2020 towing vessel. The Coast Guard has recorded 7 inspections since 2020, most recently in December 2025, along with 1 casualty investigation in 2024.
Records from 2020 to 2025. Most recent: inspection, 4 December 2025.
- Built
- 2020
- Last inspected
- 4 December 2025
- Documentation
- Valid · documentation file of 10 August 2026
- Deficiencies
- 0 recorded · 0 without a recorded resolution
- Controls
- None recorded without a removal date
- Casualties
- 1 investigation · 2024
Identity
1309665
WDL8581
1645493
Flag
UNITED STATES
Maury page id
psix-1645493
Inspections, by type
…with no type recorded3
Years with a record
4 calendar years (2020–2025)
The 7 inspections in the strip above, split by the kind of activity the US
Coast Guard recorded. Years with a record are calendar years in which a record exists, not
years in service. What Maury does not do.
Coast Guard record current through 23 August 2026, retrieved 5 September 2026 from PSIX. Every field on this page was recorded by the Coast Guard. Records for the Towing Vessel class in Maury's sources begin in 1980.
Documentation record
Registered dimensions (L × B × D)76.0 ft × 32.0 ft × 10.0 ft
Registered tonnagegross 162 / net 130
ITC dimensions (L × B × D)Not recorded
ITC tonnageNot recorded
BuilderVERRET SHIPYARD INC · PLAQUEMINE, LA, UNITED STATES · built 2020
Hull materialSteel
PropulsionDiesel
Hull shapeShip
Hull configurationMonohull
Hailing portBATON ROUGE, LA
Trade endorsementsCoastwise, unrestricted
DocumentationValid · issued 18 November 2025 · expires 31 December 2026
Service, as the file records itTowing Vessel
Hull formpowered (Maury's inference from propulsion, hull shape, material and length, rule hf-1; not a recorded fact)
Tonnage as PSIX records it162 - Simplified, Gross Ton
130 - Simplified, Net Ton
130 - Simplified, Net Ton
Every line above is a field of the National Vessel Documentation Center's file as served by NOAA Fisheries, dated 10 August 2026, matched to this hull on its Official Number. Registered and ITC measurements are two systems and are never combined. One snapshot is held so far; documentation history begins with the next.
One vessel history report for this hull — every record on this page in one dated, citable document — $300, on request.
Inspection history · 7
4 December 2025
Administrative Inspection · COI Inspection
Physical examination · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8277776
24 March 2025
TPO Audit
Administrative · Sector Houston/Galveston · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 8098463
14 May 2024
Administrative Inspection · Deficiency Check
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7912536
14 May 2024
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Marine Safety Unit Texas City · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7913680
6 August 2021
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7280933
26 February 2021
Type not recorded
No type recorded · Station Freeport · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7147326
14 December 2020
Initial Certification
Physical examination · Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge · USCG Heartland District (CGD-H) · Activity 7111302
Deficiency record · 0
No deficiencies recorded against this vessel. This means none were written in the records covered — it is not a statement about the vessel's condition. What a recorded resolution is.
Casualty record · 1
14 May 2024Routine · role: Involved in a Marine Casualty · activity 7913680
Each line is an incident investigation the Coast Guard recorded with this hull among the vessels involved, with the date and the classification the Coast Guard gave it. Involvement is not fault. The investigation narrative is not published. Source: IIR, through 2026.
Ownership record
The Coast Guard's documentation record for this hull -- the Abstract of Title,
with its owners and liens as filed -- is not in PSIX. Ask, and Maury buys it from the National
Vessel Documentation Center, files it here with its date, and every reader of this page gets it.